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The Sixties: these words evoke a period of turmoil, the Vietnam War, worldwide students protests whether at Berkeley or in France, drug addiction and assassinations of political activists. Was chemical science likewise torn apart? While it did not undergo revolutions, there were highly significant advances, along new directions.
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Laszlo, P. (2021). Chemistry in the Sixties. In: A Life and Career in Chemistry . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82393-1_7
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